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January 2009

Hosting Issues

Friends, I'm informed that we might be having some outages over the next several days, so I apologize for any...

Glenn Greenwald

I shouldn't bother thinking about or writing about Glenn Greenwald: resorting to sock puppetry is a form of deception which...

Wind Power for "Green Collar" Jobs?

The Portland Tribune, providing indirect information about one of Obama's promised approaches to "jump start" the economy: ... a Renewable...

Google Chooses Sides: Hamas it is, then!

Siding with Israel against Hamas doesn't seem to be a particularly hard judgment call to make. Israel is a liberal...

Gaza: Convenient Outrage

Michael Ramirez echoes my own perceptions... ... except that I'd write "press corps" or "world opion" rather than simply limiting...

Microsoft's Dream of Pay-As-You-Go Computing

I've been predicting this for quite a while -- specifically from Microsoft. ("Bill your credit card again for next 30...

"Boozy Britain's Bloody New Year"

According to the Telegraph (graphic photos accompany article), a 999 (equivalent to 911) call every seven seconds: In Essex, so...

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